Pat Robertson has always been a little half-baked — like the time he and Jerry Falwell sat around and blamed 9/11 on lesbian sex, or the time he said that Katrina was the sign of the biblical apocalypse.
Maybe this heat has converted the doughy mess that was Pat Robertson’s brain into something solid and reasonable. Anyway, it’s a good sign:
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming.
The view put him at odds with fellow Republican President George W. Bush, who has benefited politically from Robertson’s backing and who has refused to embrace the concept of human-caused global warming.
"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said on his "700 Club" broadcast. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air."
It was an abrupt about-face for Robertson who reaches about one million U.S. viewers daily and is credited for helping shape political views of evangelical Christians, a vibrant force behind the Republican Party.
Last October, Robertson said the National Association of Evangelicals was teaming up with "far left environmentalists" for saying global warming was caused by humans and needed to be mitigated.
Robertson’s recent conversion notwithstanding, the Christian right has rejected the undisputed evidence for global warming. I suspect that’s because the evidence comes from, you know, scientists — the same ones who say that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old.
RELATED: David Byrne (formerly of the Talking Heads) writes an interesting review of the documnetary Jesus Camp on his blog, making the following observation:
How did accepting the evidence for climate change and global warming become anti-Jesus? Did someone simply conflate all corporate agendas with Jesus and God and these folks accept that? Would Jesus drive an SUV? Is every conclusion responsible scientists make now suspect?)